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News / May 21, 2015

Judgement of Seoul Administrative Court on medical care benefit for former Samsung workers

Two South-Korean Samsung workers got seriously ill while working on the semiconductor assembly line. After applying for medical care benefit, Samsung decided to disapprove their applications, saying that it could not recognise a proximate causal…

News / May 19, 2015

Clicking clean: a guide to building the clean internet

The internet is rapidly working its way into nearly every aspect of the modern economy. Long unshackled from our web browser, we now find the internet at every turn, and ready to play a bigger…

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News / May 18, 2015

European Commission takes Poland and Slovenia to court for e-waste failings

The European Commission is referring Poland and Slovenia to the EUCourt of Justice over their failure to enact EU legislation on the recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment. The EU rules, which should have…

News / May 12, 2015

Brochure: Katanga calling

From the price we pay for our electronics, little comes back to the people who dig the metal from the soil. This is also the case for cobalt from the Democratic Republic of Congo, an…

Publication / May 8, 2015

An effective response to the conflict minerals trade

Briefing: Why the INTA approach to the proposed conflict minerals regulation would fail to tackle the trade effectively
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News / May 6, 2015

UN environment chief warns of ‘tsunami’ of e-waste at conference on chemical treaties

The head of the United Nations body tasked with setting the global environmental agenda stressed the need to limit the use of dangerous chemicals and to find a solution to the masses of electronic waste…

News / May 4, 2015

Nokia company profile reveals: workers’ rights systematically disregarded

On the day before Nokia’s shareholder meeting in Helsinki, Finland, the GoodElectronics Network is publishing a company profile narrating nearly two decades of the rise, fall, and resurrection of this Finnish electronics company. The profile…

News / May 1, 2015

First Dutch affiliate to Electronics Watch

The University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) becomes the first public body from the Netherlands, and the first hospital, to affiliate to Electronics Watch. By doing so, UMC Utrecht joins forces with other European public…

Publication / May 1, 2015

Katanga calling

Congolese cobalt and consumer electronics
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publication cover - Nokia Disconnected
Publication / May 1, 2015

Nokia Disconnected

A corporate history from a workers' perspective
publication cover - Nokia Disconnected
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